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A large number of Rational-Emotive Therapy theories and practices that I wrote about in the mid-1950s and early-1960s and that I largely summarized in my book, Reason and Emotion in Psychotherapy (Ellis, 1962), are still central tenets of REBT. These include the following:
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Ellis, A. (2019). Early Theories and Practices of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy and How They Have Been Augmented and Revised During the Last Three Decades. In: Bernard, M.E., Dryden, W. (eds) Advances in REBT. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93118-0_1
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